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The deep complexities of managing a cloud infrastructure for the enterprise are only just beginning to emerge. Today we are at Gluecon, talking with three companies about managing that complexity

Just in time for the holiday weekend (in the U.S., at least) Amazon has made a few select improvements to its S3 management console. While not Earth-shattering, the features will

We know Steve Ballmer is an enthusiastic guy. And that he has just a tad bit of excitement about Microsoft. We give Ballmer credit for his drive to make cloud

VMworld starts in the morning and all eyes will be on what gets announced and how virtualization is extending its reach into the realm of cloud computing. We sometimes find

Vivek Kundra is Obama's evangelist for cloud computing. On Friday, Kundra, the White House Federal CIO, faced one of his first big tests as he testified before the U.S. Congress

In a Microsoft video extolling its virtues, the narrator makes the point that marketing is difficult with Google Apps. It's far simpler with Microsoft Office. So we find it deliciously

It's a Friday morning and goodness knows we will be up to our eyeballs in discussions next week as the RSA Conference shovels out enough cloud security news for us

Earlier today we told you about MokaFive's BareMetal and Citrix's XenClient. These two projects strip away every element of a traditional operating system to run virtual machines at as

It's less than12 hours until Microsoft does its big launch for Sharepoint 2010. It's a grand event that will be simulcast from NBC Studios at Rockefeller Center. Things kick off

We'll be doing a live stream from OSCON, talking to the people here who want to answer our tough questions. :) The stream will be live at 2:30 p.m. PST.

Here's a twist. Yahoo is launching a native Flickr app for Windows 7 and Windows Phone 7 later this month that leverages Microsoft's Azure cloud platform. The app connects

We are back on the road and so that means it's time to do some live interviews. Today we are in Las Vegas at the IBM Information on Demand

We get so many pitches from companies at events like Dreamforce that we can never get to them all. But we do want to hear what you have to

Google recently joined a lawsuit as a friend of MP3tunes, a service that will face off on Friday against EMI, the giant record label that seems to be in

SAP ERP applications are used by companies to manage operations, finances and the workforce. But SAP ERP has the potential to be even greater when virtualization comes into the picture.

Accenture has a video that is pretty slick and adorable at the same time. It features a group of kids explaining cloud computing. The kids are sharp. They're the one

More than 250 people attended a Hadoop developer event at Yahoo! this week, demonstrating again the level of interest the company has in open-source big data initiatives. Yahoo! says it

It's such a glorious Saturday here in Oregon but I've been wanting to put this post up all week about Twitter's uptime and its use as a measure of its

The announcement of the official Google Chromebooks has rekindled interest in Google's Chrome OS. But you don't need to wait to rent a Chromebook if you want to use

Follow our coverage as we report live from VMworld, the industry's largest virtualization conference, August 30 through September 2 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Hear directly from our

This week, the Chromium project offered a sneak peak to its Native Client SDK. This project enables the browser to process C and C++ in the client and interface these

The Success Factors acquisition of YouCalc shows the shift that is happening in the enterprise workspace. It's not just the analyst who uses business intelligence applications. More so, it's the

SAP ERP applications are used by companies to manage operations, finances and the workforce. But SAP ERP has the potential to be even greater when virtualization comes into the picture.

As someone without a technical background, I'm often skeptical of promises like "one-button setup" and "installs in 2 minutes." Just because it's easy or obvious for the developer, doesn't mean

What does it take to get the best performance out of a mission critical app? You need scalability, availability, and a security foundation to really make it all work.